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Mankind is surrounded by aliens, living creatures you never
thought could exist. Some of them even live in what we call
uninhabitable zones on earth. So what makes so many scientists
think there cannot be life in uninhabitable zones in other
parts of the universe? Who knows - aliens might watch us and
our planet and wonder how anything can live in all that oxygen...
Evolving
the Alien
is a clever idea. There are hundreds of books out there that
look at the possibility of existence of sentient live on far
off worlds, but I have not come across one before that concentrates
entirely on trying to prove that alien life forms can exist
anywhere and everywhere. This angle also makes our quest for
extra terrestrial life forms more desperate. It's as though
authors have given up on the hope of finding proof of other
life form existing on Earth like planets and are instead starting
to wonder if there could be life anywhere.
The
authors also attack previous sceptical works that suggest
- because of the number of different things which needed to
happen to kick-start life on this planet, as well as the number
of different things that need to be in place to ensure life
continues to thrive - that there is very little chance of
us finding proof of other worlds with intelligent life any
time soon. The authors of Evolving the Alien state
there could very well be life not too far away from our own
planet.
One
problem with this work is that it is pure speculation from
beginning to end and, while it uses creatures from this planet
as examples of what could be out there (creatures which are
born pregnant, some that have 20 different sexes and a species
which can survive without water for a quarter of a billion
years), they are forgetting that they do live on Earth
and so the atmosphere that sustains us also helps to sustain
them. Would they be able to live on the Moon?
Despite
this very large hole in the whole argument this book is fascinating
reading, just don't take it too seriously.
Darren
Rea
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